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I’m a little hooked on photography. Have been ever since my mum came back from a trip to Spain in 2004 with a dinky little point and shoot. If I remember correctly, it was an Olympus C310Z . Since then I’ve abused a few more P&S cameras. Sometime this  year, I decided to take the plunge and get myself a DSLR. Of course, this being Ghana, there are no shops (at least not that I know of) that a person with my limited budget can get a DSLR at a good price. So, having no credit card or paypal account, I did the reasonable thing and asked a friend to order one online for me. 

After reading a lot of reviews and bugging a few pro photographers, I decided to get a Canon EOS Rebel XS w/ Kit Lens from B&H Photo and Video (www.bhphotovideo.com).  My friend placed the order successfully and got the order confirmation email.  Then a week later, the money was returned to his account and the order cancellation email was sent.  What just happened? The order cancellation did not specify a reason why the order was cancelled; everything was in order.  Seems like online merchants are jittery about orders coming from Ghana( I wonder why?). Doesn’t matter that the order might be legit, they’ve been burned way too many times by credit card fraud coming from our neck of the woods.

It was a bit of a set back but we decided to try again. Only this time, we would order from Adorama(www.adorama.com) which also had a very good reputation. Hopefully, things would work out there and besides they were offering the XS + kit lens along with a bag , 4gb SD Card and extra battery for the same price B&H is offering for just the camera (a good deal, don’t you think?). So we placed the order and that went well and we got the order confirmation email. Guess what happened a week later? Yep, the order got cancelled only this time we didn’t even receive an email. The money was returned to my friend’s account though.

I would like to say thanks to the ‘saka’ boys for making it nigh impossible for the rest of us to get any shopping done online. From Ghana at least. Anyways, can’t say I blam the online retailers. Those guys are something else. I’m making one more attempt to get the d*** camera. I’ll send the money to  my cousin in the US and he’ll make the purchase for me. Hopefully, that works out better than my last attempt.